Cake-cutter



(Model.) A. A. SODBRBERG,

CAKE CUTTER.

No. 490,993. Patented Jan. 531, 1893.

. 'a L www e UNITED STAT-ns PATENT OFFICE.

ANDERS ALFRED SODERBERG, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAKE-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION `forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,993, dated January 31, 189,3.

Application tiled May 16, 1892.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ANDERs ALFRED SOBER- BERG, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cake-Cutters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a frame carrying two rollers in parallel axial relation with each other,and designed to be run over the dough of which the cakes are to be made, said rollers being coupled to work in unison and proper relation with each other and being each armed with part cutters, whereby one part of each cake is cut by one roller and the other part thereof by the other roller, substantially as hereinafter described and more specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure. 1 represents an end elevation of a multiple dough cutting device for making cakes, embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a longitudinal elevation of the same; Fig. 3 an inverted plan thereof; and Fig. 4 a diagram in illustration of the action of the cake cutters.

The device, which is designed for both bakers and private or family use, may either be made single or multiple, that is, constructed for making either one row of cakes, or two or more parallel rows thereof, each time the Y device is run over the dough, according to the number of cutters with which the rollers are p provided in direction of their length, and the ranged at asuitable distance apart and which p are journaled in the opposite ends of the frame to freely rotate. One of these rollers is provided at one of its ends with a circular Serial No. 433,126. (Model.)

tin cutting wheel ortdisk O, and the other of said rollers with a like cutting disk O at its reverse end to thatof the other disk. These cutting disks are of a diameter to project below their respective ends of the frame and serve, as the device is run over alayer of dough, of suitable thickness corresponding with the thickness of the cakes to be made, to direct the device inits course and to cut a path or strip, represented by the parallel lines h h in Fig. 4, Vout of or through which the cakes, or pieces of dough forming the cakes, are cut, which disks being fast on the rollers or shai'ts B, B, serve to rotate the cakecutting knives that are also fast to and carried by. said rollers.

D', D2, D3 and D4, are the cake cutting or dough cutting knives of tin, on the rollers B, B. These knives or cutters are each of similar construction and project radially from the rollers B, B, to an extent corresponding or thereabout with the diameters of the cutting disks O, C. For cutting round cakes E, E as shown in Fig. 4, said cutters are each formed of two curved or Haring blades on opposite sides of their respective rollers, the cutters onv one roller Haring in a reverse direction tov those on the other roller with which they work in connection, and being of such size in direction of the length ot the rollers that the cutters on one roller slightly protrude beyond the length of their fellow cutters on the other roller to insure a full cut.

The rollers B, B, are coupled together to work in unison by cranks d d,'on one end of their pivots, connected by a link or pitman e, which may be also made of tin, and the cutters on either oneiroller are arranged to radially project at right angles to the opposite or fellow cutters on the other roller with which they work in connection, so that when one set of cutters on one roller occupies a IOC vice is run over the dough, the cutters Dand D2 make the half or part cuts respectively ci each cake E shown by dotted and full lines 1 and 2 shown in Fig. 4, and the cutters D3 and D4 make the half or part cuts respectively of each cake E shown by dotted and full lines 3 and 4 in said Fig. 4.

Wooden or other handlesf, may be secured to the ends of the frame A for pushing the device over andkthrough the dough. These handles may be connected by a bar g, riveted to the frame A which will servey to stiften or strengthen the latter.

By this dough cutting device for making cakes, many difficulties attendant upon previous modes or devices for cutting cakes will be overcome and a much larger amount of work can be done in a given time, by a mere child, than has been practicable heretofore by a skilled or journeyman baker. The dough too, will not stick to the cutters and the device can be Worked With any speed required and very fast. It Will never leave any scraps or remnants of dough after each cutting but what are unavoidable, dependent of course upon the shape of the cutters, and if the cutters are shaped to cut square or any kind of figures that Will iit into each other, there will be no remnants Whatever. rlhe device then saves both time and labor both on account of the rapidity with which it may be worked and on account of the small amount of scrap it ordinarily Will leave, after each cutting, to be Worked over again. The device too can be lconstructed cheaply and be profitably sold at a comparatively low price, and its critters are constructed of very few parts and can be readily stamped out by machine in various shapes and sizes.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A dough cutting device for making'cakes, composed of a frame, apairof horizontal parallel shafts or rollers carried by said frame, linked together to Work in unison, cutting Wheels on the ends of said rollers operating to rotate the latter and to guide the device as it is run over the dough, and radial cake forming cutters projecting from opposite sides of the rollers arranged, lengthwise of the two rollers, out of line butin overlapping relation With each other and at right angles in a radial direction or relation to one another, whereby each roller is made to cut one part of each cake and the other roller the other part ot each cake, to give the cake its desired ferm or figure, substantially as specified.

2. In a dough cutting device of the character described, the combination With rollers and cake cutters on Said rollers, of cutting and running Wheels one on eachrroller at opposite ends thereof, substantially as described.

3. In a dough cutting device for making cakes, the combination of the frame A, the shafts or rollers B, B, the cutting Wheels or disks C, C, on the ends of said rollers, the cranks d d and connecting link e, and the cake-forming cutters D', D2, D3 and D4, on said rollers arranged iu relation with each other, substantially as described.

ANDERS ALFRED SODERBERG.

Witnesses:

JOHN G. SODERBERG, JOHN CLAsoN. 

